Below are the papers presented at a conference organised by the Campaign for Open Media and the Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa (Idasa), held at the Indaba Hotel and Conference Centre, Hartbeespoort Dam, Witkoppen, Johannesburg, from the 23 to the 25 November 1990. It was billed as "A conference to discuss the adaptations to be made by the media to meet the demands of a non-racial democratic South Africa and to explore the aims it should set itself."

See the Programme for the conference.

The future of the electronic media in South Africa: A personal viewpoint - P.L. Raubenheimer, SABC

Towards an open media for a new South Africa - Shaun Johnson

Towards an open media for a new South Africa - Gavin Stewart, Rhodes University

Towards an open media for a new South Africa - Richard Steyn

Open media and the experience of Mozambique

Open media and the experience of Namibia

Ownership of the media - Ameen Akhalwaya, Editor,The Indicator

The Question of ownership [Handwritten notes] - Thami Ntenteni 

The shape and role of the media in the "new South Africa" - Raymond Louw, Chairman, Campaign for Open Media

Negotiations, the SABC and a post-apartheid broadcast sector - Michael Markowitz, Film and Allied Workers Organisation

The question of ownership - Dene Smuts, MP for the Democratic Party

Towards a democracy of the dial: Who should own the electronic media in the new South Africa - Radio 702